1883. Landing at Miragoâne of opponents of President Salomon:
These opponents, who were mostly liberals exiled to Jamaica at the
following a seizure aimed at overthrowing the president, once they landed, initiated a
insurrectionary movement to which residents of other cities of the
country. After valiantly fighting government troops during
For more than six months, they had to capitulate following the death of their leader, Boyer Bazelais.
1992. The Washington Agreement declared unconstitutional by the Court of Cassation:
Signed on February 23, 1992 in the American capital between the president in exile, Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Haitian parliamentarians, this agreement which provided among other things for the appointment of a new prime minister, the return of the president in exile
and an amnesty in favor of the putchist soldiers, was declared unconstitutional by
the highest judicial body in the country.